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The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

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This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.

  • p. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 5 2 - 5 9
S/N, 14 Jan. 1942; memo to Rear Adm.
John S. McCain from Maj. Gen. George
E. Stratemeyer, C/AS, 17 Feb. 1943;
History, FC Operations, p. 191. Three
Sikorsky S 4 4 Clippers were nearing
completion and were turned over to the
Navy in 1942. (See also Air Transporta-
tion, 11 [June 19431, 15.)
154. Memo for C/AC from Col. Olds,
4 Dec. 1941.
155. Minutes cited in n. 151; memo to
Rear Adm. McCain from C/AS, 17 Feb.
'943.
156. Contract DA W 535 ac-914, 13
Dec. 1941, and sup. contract # I thereto,
17 Dec. 1941.
157. History, FC Operations, pp. 9-10.
158. For a detailed account of these
early operations to and within the South-
west Pacific Area, see ibid., pp. 9-18.
159. Sup. agreements, 13 Dec. 1941,
to contracts DA W 535 ace415 and DA
W 535 ac-416.
160. Memo for Mr. Brownell from
Gen. Olds, 13 Feb. 1942; memo for Gen.
Arnold from Gen. George, 25 June 1942;
History, FC Operations, pp. 180-81, 197-
98.
161. AAF Historical Study No. 12,
The Tenth Air Force, 1942, pp. 33-34;
History, FC Operations, p. 198.
162. History, FC Operations, pp. 192-
93, 197-98, 218. T W A operated under
contract DA W 535 ac-1062, 24 Dec.
1941, and directive No. I thereto, 1 2 Jan.
1942. (See also T.W.A.'s Contribution to
the W a r and History of T W A Foreign
Contract Service, incl. to ltr., Otis F.
Bryan to Lt. Col. Rex W. Smith, Jr., 25
Feb. 1943.)
163. Memos to Col. Thomas L.
Mosley from J. V. Roscoe, PAA repre-
sentative, 1 1 June 1942; History, FC
Operations, pp. 19697.
164. Ltr., Col. C.R. Smith, C/S A T C
to L. Welch Pogue, 15 Aug. 1942; His-
tory, Caribbean Div., Pt. 2, pp. 144-47.
165. History, Caribbean Div., Pt. 2 ,
pp. '43-449 ' 5 5 .
166. Memo for Col. Mosley from J.V.
Roscoe, 1 1 June 1942; memo for C G
AAF from Col. L.P. Whitter and Capt.
7 0 6
Wm. M. Sheehan, 2 2 June 1942; memo
for Gen. Arnold from Gen. George, 2 5
June 1942; History, FC Operations, pp.
19697, 2 1 8 .
167. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 294-303, 318; contract DA W 535
ac-1476, 31 Jan. 1942; ltr., Lt. Col. Robert
M. Love to Northeast Airlines, 3 Feb.
1942; Chronology of Inaugural Routes
and Flights, North Atlantic Div., 1 5 Feb.
'945.
168. Contract DA W 535 ac-27361,
4 Apr. 1942; American Airlines Survey
Flight, as cited in n. 137.
169. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 311-15; contract DA W 535 ac-
1062, 24 Dec. 1941, and directive No. 9
thereto, 4 Apr. '942; Pilot's Report,
T W A Survey Trip, 13-24 Apr. 1942;
memo to Col. Mosley from M/Sgt.
Joseph H. Walsh, 8 May 1942.
170. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
171. Contract DA W 535 ac-1765, 20
Feb. 1942; ltr., Gen. Olds to Northwest
Airlines, Inc., 7 Mar. 1942.
172. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
1942-45, pp. 25-30; Summary of North-
ern Division operations with N W A
Equipment, 27 Feb.-zo Apr. 1942, in
A T C Hist. file.
173. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
1942-459 p. 34.
174. Ibid., pp. 35-36. Letters of intent
were issued to Western Airlines on 16
April and 27 April, but the contract, W
535 ac-28400, was not approved until 17
June 1942.
175. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
'942-457 p. 34.
176. Contract w 535 ac-29829, 25
June 1942.
177. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
'941-459 pp. 37-39.
178. Ibid., pp. 39-40.
179. The Air Transport Command in
the Southwest Pacific, 7 Dec. 1941-1
180. R&R, Gen. Arnold to Col.
181. The Air Transport Command in
1942-457 pp. 10-24.
Aug. 1944, pp. 1-13.
George, 29 Mar. 1942.
the Southwest Pacific, n. 15, p. 1 2 .

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